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| Title: | Mobile Phone Mergers and Market Shares Short Term Losses and Long Term Gains |
| Authors: | Fox, Jeremy T. - University of Chicago
Perez, Hector - University of Chicago |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | NET Institute Working Paper;06-16 |
| Abstract: | The US mobile phone industry has dramatically consolidated through
mergers. We investigate whether a merger increases the performance of a
combined carrier over the sum of its constituent parts. We first
directly compare the quantities of post-merger carriers to those of
their pre-merger predecessors. This analysis considers only two years
after a merger, as most carriers engage in new mergers after that time.
To examine possible long run implications, we also explore the cross
sectional relationship between outcomes and measures of firm size, as
firm size is increased in a merger. We examine the market share of new
subscribers. We also examine two measures of firm size: the amount of a
carrier’s geographic coverage and its past subscriber count. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/28459 |
| Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series
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